Research of the Stroganovs' collection in Tomsk: books of French writers of 19th century

The phenomenon of the library is seen as a major cultural form and as a special communicative model in the article. It is asserted that the model of culture functioning of the type of the library is dominated by the existential form of communication, which allows the person to identify with the world through the understanding of the multiplicity of the "I" . At the same time the process of reading is seen as one of the elements of communication, as a sort of way of translation of texts, due to which their existential ''read-residence'' has the objective of achieving a holistic perception of the culture and ourselves in it. The basic object of the research is the book collection of the Counts Stroganov in Tomsk, which is perceived as a reflection of the phenomenology of consciousness of its main owner Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov (1770-1857), member of the State Council, diplomat, a famous figure of the era of Alexander I and Nicholas I. Appeal to the library of the Stroganovs is studied in connection with the history of higher education in Siberia, in Tomsk and formation of the basic funds of the research library of Tomsk State University, which are inseparable from the history of Russian and Western European culture of the 18th-19th centuries. Publications in the French language become the subject of study out of 20500 volumes, among them paintings collection and books of writers of the first half of the 19th century: P. de Musset, E.M. de Saint-Hilaire, texts of Ch. Nodier, lithographies of J.O. Fragonard, J.B. Isabey, etc. These editions reveal the universal principle of the formation of the library of G.A. Stroganov, allow to draw a picture about the aesthetic preferences of its owner, about his attitude to the modern romantic literature, painting and historiography of France. The considered works are also closely connected with the history of books and book-publishing business in Western Europe of the first half of the 19th century.

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